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What are the big issues of today?
We're constantly bombarded with debates and soundbites on a range of issues. If you were in charge which would your priorities? How would you rank the following issues in terms of importance?
Iraq, immigration, the tax we pay, the EC, dealing with sex offenders, third world debt, the olympics, our cultural heritage, madeleine mccann, the england football team, keeping the pound.
Just interested in getting a barometer of people's main issues.
Iraq, immigration, the tax we pay, the EC, dealing with sex offenders, third world debt, the olympics, our cultural heritage, madeleine mccann, the england football team, keeping the pound.
Just interested in getting a barometer of people's main issues.
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Interesting you haven't (or anyone else) included terrorism in the list. Considering that is why we are in Iraq and Afghanistan and why new laws which restrict our freedom and privacy are constantly being introduced. And missile shields being built... Yet the England Football team seems to merit more importance.
forget all that lot its those extremist we need to be worried about!!!!!
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/pressass/20070613/ten -extremists-threaten-celebrity-chefs-5a7c575.h tml
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/pressass/20070613/ten -extremists-threaten-celebrity-chefs-5a7c575.h tml
While not wishing to make light of the Madeleine McCann situation do you realise that...
About 11 children A WEEK are killed or seriously injured on British roads every week (2005 figures).
So in the month since Madeleine disappeared between 40 and 50 children have been killed or seriously injured on British roads.
And hardly a mention of what their parents are going through on any TV or radio station.
We seem to accept these awful figures without the blinking of an eye (in fact about 10 people A DAY are killed on British roads).
About 11 children A WEEK are killed or seriously injured on British roads every week (2005 figures).
So in the month since Madeleine disappeared between 40 and 50 children have been killed or seriously injured on British roads.
And hardly a mention of what their parents are going through on any TV or radio station.
We seem to accept these awful figures without the blinking of an eye (in fact about 10 people A DAY are killed on British roads).
Loosehead
That's twice today we've agreed on something.
We are truly through the looking glass.
In order to answer the original post - I would put the list in the following order:
third world debt
Iraq
immigration
I'll be honest - the rest literally don't register. I can't think of the last time I've really pondered any of the others.
Perhaps once Kylie's new CD is released I'll be able to concentrate on less important things.
That's twice today we've agreed on something.
We are truly through the looking glass.
In order to answer the original post - I would put the list in the following order:
third world debt
Iraq
immigration
I'll be honest - the rest literally don't register. I can't think of the last time I've really pondered any of the others.
Perhaps once Kylie's new CD is released I'll be able to concentrate on less important things.
Mine [and the stance I have] would be:
Tax [though tax efficiency I'm concerned with rather than tax itself]
Iraq [I'm strongly in favour of staying despite the fact that we should never have gone in]
Madeleine McCann [It's difficult not to be concerned with an issue like this, and I'd also put child fatalities in general here]
EU [I'd like to stay in the EU, but on international rather than supranational grounds (though there inevitably has to be some supranationalism)]
Keeping the pound [in favour of retaining Sterling]
Immigration [a totally over-hyped and dramatised issue, in my view]
The olympics & football team I'm wholly indifferent to, and I don't understand the 'cultural heritage' thing.
Tax [though tax efficiency I'm concerned with rather than tax itself]
Iraq [I'm strongly in favour of staying despite the fact that we should never have gone in]
Madeleine McCann [It's difficult not to be concerned with an issue like this, and I'd also put child fatalities in general here]
EU [I'd like to stay in the EU, but on international rather than supranational grounds (though there inevitably has to be some supranationalism)]
Keeping the pound [in favour of retaining Sterling]
Immigration [a totally over-hyped and dramatised issue, in my view]
The olympics & football team I'm wholly indifferent to, and I don't understand the 'cultural heritage' thing.
Tax first - we pay too much.
The economy in general.
Couldn't really give a tinker's cuss about third world debt........................................although thinking about it, if it stops Geldof and Nobo being all holier than thou and preachy about the damn subject, then sod it, let's just forget about all the money owed and wipe the slate clean.
The economy in general.
Couldn't really give a tinker's cuss about third world debt........................................although thinking about it, if it stops Geldof and Nobo being all holier than thou and preachy about the damn subject, then sod it, let's just forget about all the money owed and wipe the slate clean.
1. Sav ing the planet when all the major players are still increasing their emissions.
2. Saving Iraq when the tensions are spreading even further outwards including Lebanon, West Bank and every other Islamic country.
3. Saving young children when all the government can do is to ASK the paedophile if he wants to take some medicine.
4. How to stop the USA from siting thir bl**dy missiles all over the planet.
5. To reduce the decline of the NHS even though extra money has been ploughed into it.
6. To increase the salaries and expenses of all MPs to exceed inflation
All are pipe dreams except no.6 of course.
2. Saving Iraq when the tensions are spreading even further outwards including Lebanon, West Bank and every other Islamic country.
3. Saving young children when all the government can do is to ASK the paedophile if he wants to take some medicine.
4. How to stop the USA from siting thir bl**dy missiles all over the planet.
5. To reduce the decline of the NHS even though extra money has been ploughed into it.
6. To increase the salaries and expenses of all MPs to exceed inflation
All are pipe dreams except no.6 of course.
If I was a news editor I would rank the stories in order of profitability i.e. what will gain the most viewers and thereby generate maximum income.
If that means playing up to parents' fears about paedophiles or milking another headline out of a dead princess' corpse, then so be it. In fact it is naive to think otherwise.
I try not to be offended by our commercial media masquerading as a conscionable public service.
Our sensationalist style free media is in theory better than a state-controlled media but when the ultimate agenda is viewers and advertising revenue it can make for uneasy watching.
If that means playing up to parents' fears about paedophiles or milking another headline out of a dead princess' corpse, then so be it. In fact it is naive to think otherwise.
I try not to be offended by our commercial media masquerading as a conscionable public service.
Our sensationalist style free media is in theory better than a state-controlled media but when the ultimate agenda is viewers and advertising revenue it can make for uneasy watching.
The things I care about other people for are -
my neighbourhood being terrorised by unsupervised youths
drug abusers and dealers making my area unsafe
living in housing conditions dictated by other people just because we rent ( e.g. repairs are crap)
The ones that personally annoy me are �
-Bins � I pay council tax, why am I suddenly being given a two weekly removal rate as opposed to weekly?
-Sex offenders � I want to know who they are, but this is an iffy one, allegedly, as I do see that they will then be driven into hiding so no one will know where they are. Therefore brand the little ***** with �P.E.A.D.O. on their forehead, that may work. We do need to know who they are, sod their human rights. If they are ready to violate someone else�s rights f&&&& them.
-our cultural heritage. ******* me off because of Liverpool City of Culture 2008 as it�s being spent on silly meetings about no one knows what rather that actual groups that could provide examples of culture to the visitors in 2008.
Terrorism isn�t on my list because London has been used to that for donkeys with the IRA. Why Al-Kidder is suddenly so much more of a threat is beyond me, and I�m sure the IRA are very insulted that they were paid so much less attention to.
